لَبُؤَةٌ ذ (Th, S, K, the most approved form, Yoo,) and ↓ لَبْأَةٌ and ↓ لَبَاءَةٌ and ↓ لُبَأَةٌ (K) and لَبْوَةٌ (ISk, S, K, in the dial. of El-Hijáz, TA,) and لِبْوَةٌ and لَبَةٌ and لَبُوَةٌ and لَبَاةٌ (K) A lioness. (K.) Accord. to Fei., it has no masc. of the same root; but this is at variance with the authority of the L. (TA.) Pl. (of لَبُؤَةٌ, TA,) لَبُؤٌ [or this is a quasi-pl. n., or a coll. gen. n.] and (of [لَبْأَةٌ and] لَبَاةٌ, (TA,) لَبْآتٌ [or, app., accord. to the L, (a passage from which, quoted in the TA, seems to have been there corrupted by the copyist,) if لَبَاةٌ be a word of a particular dial., not formed by alleviation of hemzeh from لَبْأَةٌ, its pl. is لَبَآتٌ,] and (of لُبَأَةٌ, TA,) لُبَأٌ and (of لَبْوَةٌ, TA,) لَبُوَاتٌ (K, accord. to the TA, but accord. to MF لَبْوَاتٌ). [These plurals, with their corresponding singulars, are thus given in the TA &c. In the CK, the pls. are given as follows: لَبْآتٌ and لُبُوْءٌ and لُبُؤٌ and لَبُوَاتٌ.] Each of the singulars may have a perfect, or sound, pl., ending with ات. (MF.)
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